Been over a month since I've updated my 2009 reading list, so here are the books I've read over the past five weeks or so, with tiny commentaries:
369 Jaime Martínez Tolentino, Cuentos Fantásticos (Spanish) (decent)
370 Hayo Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, vol. I (good)
371 Italo Calvino, The Path to the Spiders' Nest (very good)
372 Scott Mills, Big Clay Pot (good)
373 Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis (very good for much of the way, but too short)
374 Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (re-read) (classic)
375 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poesías de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Spanish) (OK)
376 Zoran Živković, Impossible Stories II (very good collection)
377 Zoran Živković, Amarkord (Serbian) (very good)
378 Nick Tapalansky and Alex Eckman-Lawn, Awakening: Volume I (good to very good)
379 Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop (excellent)
380 Pat Barker, The Man Who Wasn't There (very good)
381 Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books (outstanding)
382 J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello (decent)
383 Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (very good)
384 Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (very good)
385 Amanda Downum, The Drowning City (meh)
386 Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl (good to very good)
387 Peter Straub (ed.), American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps (excellent)
388 Peter Straub (ed.), American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From the 1940s to Now (outstanding)
389 Sergio Toppi, Sparrow: Volume 12 (artbook) (very good)
390 John Watkiss, Sparrow: Volume 11 (artbook) (very good)
391 Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (re-read) (excellent)
392 Gail Carriger, Soulless (very good debut novel)
393 Ashley Wood, Sparrow: Volume 0 (artbook) (very good)
394 Ashley Wood, Sparrow: Volume 1 (artbook) (very good)
395 Phil Hale, Sparrow: Volume 2 (artbook) (very good)
396 Kent Williams, Sparrow: Volume 3 (artbook) (very good)
397 Shane Glines, Sparrow: Volume 4 (artbook) (very good)
398 Phil Hale, Sparrow: Volume 5 (artbook) (very good)
399 Vladimir Nabokov, Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 (Library of America omnibus) (excellent to outstanding)
400 Kristin Cashore, Fire (excellent)
401 Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading (excellent to outstanding)
402 Eoin Colfer, And Another Thing... (already reviewed, but very good)
403 David Ratte, Toxic Planet (very good)
404 Camilla d'Errico, Sparrow: Volume 13 (artbook) (very good)
405 Jeff VanderMeer, Shriek: An Afterword (re-read) (excellent)
406 Vladimir Nabokov, Glory (excellent)
407 Dave Eggers, The Wild Things (excellent)
408 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (very good)
409 William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (good)
410 Clive Barker, The Books of Blood (very good)
411 Olga Dugina and Andrej Dugin, The Brave Little Tailor (very good to excellent)
412 Sergio Toppi, Sharaz-De: Volume 1 (excellent to outstanding)
413 Sergio Toppi, Sharaz-De: Volume 2 (excellent)
414 Jeff VanderMeer, Booklife (review forthcoming; very good to excellent; non-fiction)
415 Scott Mills, Trenches (good)
416 Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham (re-read) (classic)
417 Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams (good to very good)
418 Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, The Gathering Storm (already reviewed; very good)
419 H.P. Lovecraft, Tales (Library of America omnibus) (excellent)
420 Philip K. Dick, Four Novels of the 1960s (Library of America omnibus) (very good)
421 Gustavo Arellano, ¡Ask a Mexican! (very good; non-fiction)
422 Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Eclipse Three (very good)
423 Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies (excellent)
424 Jeff Lemire, The Nobody (excellent to outstanding)
425 Denis Diderot and D'Alembert, L'Encyclopédie: Art de L'Escrime (French) (good; non-fiction)
426 J.M. Coetzee, Youth (good)
427 Rick Berry, Sparrow: Volume 6 (artbook) (very good)
In Progress:
Jeff Lemire, Essex County (omnibus, with new material, outstanding so far, 2/3 in)
Ellen Datlow (ed.), Lovecraft Unbound
William Faulkner, Novels 1926-1929 (Library of America omnibus)
Philip K. Dick, Five Novels of the 1960s and 1970s (Library of America omnibus)
William Jansen, Beginner's Basque
Stephen King, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born (graphic novel adaptation)
Future Plans:
N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Don DeLillo, Underworld
The Empirical Approach to Learning
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Well, with book number 416, it merely shows that great minds think alike.
Seriously, I've been awaiting some reviews of 100,000 Kingdoms and saw one on another site and will be very interested to see how well it fares here.
I'm certainly curious about that book, but it likely won't be read for a few more weeks, or maybe even closer to its February 2010 release date.
:: points to 381 ::
When are you going to review that one?
Don't know, Dunja, but that book is one of the ones I'm sending you shortly, as it is full of WIN.
Oh. In that case I'm going to have my curiosity satisfied in the bestest way. :D
You read Amarcord in serbian?
Of course! I have a feeling I'm going to have to read a lot more of Moers' work...and end up sending that to you :P
Yes, I read it in a parallel way - I'd read a few pages in the original, then read the English translation found in Impossible Stories II. Liked that "story suite" quite a bit, but you already knew of my admiration for his writing.
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